[
US
/ˈɛnvəˌɫoʊp/
]
NOUN
- a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
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the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
test pilots try to push the envelope - a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
- any wrapper or covering
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a natural covering (as by a fluid)
the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet - the bag containing the gas in a balloon
How To Use envelope In A Sentence
- When Wilbraham was telling me this part of Ids story he seemed to be enveloped -- "enveloped" is the word that best conveys my own experience of him -- by some quite radiant happiness. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
- Does the name on the envelope correspond with the name on the letter inside?
- It was a simple plain white envelope with Yoshiki written in gold on the front.
- The assembly saw delegates housed in five-star hotels and carrying upmarket Bonia-brand bags, instead of the usual Manila paper envelopes.
- While I'm walking along the beach and eating handfuls of cornflake sand, I encounter a group of envelopes playing horseshoes. Horseshoe Champion
- Yeats painted the little scene across both front and back of a paper envelope which was then stamped and franked when he posted it to John Masefield in 1905.
- I put the letter in the envelope and placed it on the pile.
- I couldn't read the address on the envelope.
- Later, I open the envelope and pull out a blow-up of the wedding photo.
- He flapped up to his apartment in his ruined shoes, found his keys in the bottom of the buff envelope. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
